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  • Poster for A Night of Poetry and Music at Bethlehem Lutheran Church

    08/03/2026

    A Night of Poetry and Music

    A free night of poetry and acoustic music at Bethlehem Lutheran Church in Jacksonville Beach. The event has now taken place; this is the invitation as it was published.

  • 06/08/2025

    Google’s Veo3: trial and cost

    I asked Gemini how video production with Veo 3 works: fair use and resale of generated clips, who owns the output, what the trial allows, and what a 30-second commercial would actually cost.

  • 02/25/2018

    The $1,800 Bottle of Skin Glue

    My son fell and gashed his chin before T-ball practice. The bill that followed, and the letter I got back when I questioned it, say more about American emergency billing than any explainer could.